Solutions : Common Criteria

Common Criteria provides assurance that the process of specification, implementation and evaluation of a computer security product has been conducted in a rigorous and standard manner.

The Common Criteria represents the outcome of international efforts to align and develop the existing European and North American criteria. The Common Criteria project harmonizes ITSEC, CTCPEC (Canadian Criteria) and US Federal Criteria (FC) into the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC) for use in evaluating products and systems and for stating security requirements in a standardized way. Increasingly it is replacing national and regional criteria with a worldwide set accepted by the International Standards Organization (ISO15408).

CC was produced by unifying these pre-existing standards, so that companies selling computer products for defense or intelligence use would only need to have them evaluated against one set of standards. The CC was developed by the governments of Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and the U.S.
The following HDS products have achieved Common Criteria Certification: